<hi rend="bold"> Letter from Philemon B. Hawkins to his father, John D. Hawkins, February 26, 1841 (Regarding Student Drunkenness) :</hi> Electronic Edition. Hawkins, Philemon B. Funding from the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supported the electronic publication of this title. Text transcribed by Bari Helms Images scanned by Caitlin R. Donnelly Text encoded by Caitlin R. Donnelly First Edition, 2007 ca. 12K The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina 2007

© This work is the property of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text

 Hawkins Family Papers (#322), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Letter from Philemon B. Hawkins to his father, John D. Hawkins, February 26, 1841 (Regarding Student Drunkenness) Philemon B. Hawkins 1 page, 1 page image 1841 Call number 322 (Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

The electronic edition is a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill digital library, Documenting the American South.

The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 5 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines.

Originals are in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved.

Page images can be viewed and compared in parallel with the text.

Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line.

All quotation marks, em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as entity references.

All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as ".

All single right and left quotation marks are encoded as '.

All em dashes are encoded as —.

Indentation in lines has not been preserved.

 </bibl> </taxonomy> </classDecl> </encodingDesc> <profileDesc> <langUsage> <language id="eng">English</language> </langUsage> <textClass> <keywords scheme="unc_history"> <list> <item> Any special keywords assigned for this project </item> </list> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc> <revisionDesc> <change> <date>2007-05-16,</date> <respStmt> <name>Caitlin R. Donnelly</name> <resp/> </respStmt> <item>finished TEI/XML encoding.</item> </change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text id="unc06-70"> <body> <div1 type="personal letter"> <pb id="unc06-70-p01" n="[1]"/> <head> Letter from <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="">Philemon B. Hawkins</name> to his father, <name key="pn0000695" reg="Hawkins, John D." type="person">John D. Hawkins</name>, February 26, 1841 [Regarding Student Drunkenness] </head> <opener> <dateline> <name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill, NC" type="place" rend="yes">Chapel Hill</name> <date>February 26<hi rend="sup">th</hi>. 1841</date> </dateline> <salute>My Dear <name key="pn0000695" reg="Hawkins, John D." type="person">Papa</name></salute> </opener> <p>I have no doubt but what you censure me no little for not complying with my promise sooner, but as <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="">Alexander</name> and myself have been enjoying very good health and has been very punctual in the performances of our collegiate duties, and we do hope to continue in the same, I did not think it any absolute necessity of writing to you before this; I should be very much pleased to get a letter from Home, to learn how they all are prospering; I wrote to <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="">Mama</name> sometime since, but I do not know whether she has received my letter, or not, I have not seen any answer as yet; We had an excellent oration delivered to us on the 22<hi rend="sup">d</hi> ultimo by a member of the S<hi rend="sup">r</hi>. Class; Greater part of the students thought that it would not do to let the Birthday of such a man pass by, without drinking some spirituous Liquor, but I am sorry to say that some took rather too much, and was caught by a Member of the Faculty, who reported them to the <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization" rend="yes">Board</name>, and they were arraigned before them, the next day; And they dismissed the two Messrs Polks<ref id="ref1" target="note1" rend="sup">1</ref> of <name key="name0001104" reg="Tennessee" type="place" rend="yes">Ten<hi rend="sup">se</hi>.</name>, <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="">Aunt Polk</name>'s Grand Children and suspended four more for three weeks; The Messrs Polks are very much dejected indeed, I well know that they can not help feeling and that deeply and sensibly too, the disgraceful act which they have commited, Their Parrents will be mortified in the extreme; I see that <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="">Andrew Polk</name> is dismissed from <name key="name0000909" reg="Princeton University" type="organization" rend="yes">Princeton</name> for quarreling with one of the Tutors, Col <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="">Nuttall</name> has twenty three Boarders and is doing pretty well, four or five left him some time since, to go to a cheaper House; I should like very much to hear how your suit with M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="">Persons</name> came off; <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="">Alexander</name> and Myself are well and we both unite in sending our best Love to you & <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="">Mama</name> and to the rest of the Family, write soon</p> <closer> <salute>I remain your affectionate Son</salute> <signed rend="center"> <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="">Philemon B. Hawkins</name> </signed> </closer> </div1> <div1 type="note"> <note id="note1" target="ref1"> <p>1. <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="">Hawkins</name> is referring to <name key="pn0001374" reg="Polk, Allen Jones" type="person">Allen Jones Polk</name> and <name key="pn0001378" reg="Polk, Thomas G." type="person">Thomas G. Polk</name>. </p> </note> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI.2>